Increasing the UK's long-term aviation capacity

CPRE's response to the Airports Commission's consultation

CPRE believes all three short-listed options to expand south east airports are unsustainable. Because England does not a national spatial plan, there has been no assessment of airport expansion with wider planning objectives, such as rebalancing regional economies and reusing brownfield sites. In addition the assessment of the impact of additional air traffic movements on tranquillity was wholly inadequate.